Peter Elliott Hayes - Orbit One Zero

PETER ELLIOTT HAYES - ORBIT ONE ZERO (320kbs-m4a/393mb/2hrs50mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 29th June to 3rd August 2025

Newspaper reporter, Tom Lambert has decided to reinvestigate the strange events of ten years before, concerning the "cosmic noise". Believing the inside story was never told, he's tracked down the only man who knows, Dr Hayward Petrie.

Told in flashbacks, the story unfolds from Dr Petrie's own recordings of the time when the detection of a strange pattern of signals sparks a mysterious discovery...

Written by Peter Elliott Hayes.

Producer: David Davis

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in April/May 1961.

PETER ELLIOTT HAYES - ORBIT ONE ZERO - 1. THE UNSEEING EYE (320kbs-m4a/67mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 29th June 2025

"A glimpse across a weird threshold, on the rim of space where there should be nothing but eternal, frozen darkness. Yet where there was something more....."

Dr Petrie .... Felix Felton
Tom Lambert .... David Spenser
Clifford Brown .... Graydon Gould
Elizabeth Ryder .... Elaine MacNamara
Professor Campbell McLaren .... Ian Sadler
Peter Garrick .... Harold Reese

PETER ELLIOTT HAYES - ORBIT ONE ZERO - 2. THE CYLINDER (320kbs-m4a/65mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 6th July 2025

Monitoring a strange pattern of signals sparks a mysterious discovery in outer space.

Dr Petrie .... Felix Felton
Tom Lambert .... David Spenser
Clifford Brown .... Graydon Gould
Elizabeth Ryder .... Elaine MacNamara
Professor Campbell McLaren .... Ian Sadler
Peter Garrick .... Harold Reese

PETER ELLIOTT HAYES - ORBIT ONE ZERO - 3. THE POWER (320kbs-m4a/63mb/27mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 13th July 2025

The mysterious cylinder reveals its contents and - more terrifyingly - its awesome capabilities...

Dr Petrie .... Felix Felton
Tom Lambert .... David Spenser
Clifford Brown .... Graydon Gould
Elizabeth Ryder .... Elaine MacNamara
Sir Edward Bancroft .... William Fox
Mr Morgan .... Basil Jones

PETER ELLIOTT HAYES - ORBIT ONE ZERO - 4. THE VOICES (320kbs-m4a/66mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 20th July 2025

After dramatic events in outer-space, the disturbance of noise, light and vibration subsides...

Dr Petrie .... Felix Felton
Tom Lambert .... David Spenser
Clifford Brown .... Graydon Gould
Elizabeth Ryder .... Elaine MacNamara
Peter Garrick .... Harold Reese
Sir Edward Bancroft .... William Fox
Dr Trevor Hughes .... Basil Jones
Lord Hetherton .... Charles West
Professor Campbell McLaren .... Ian Sadler

PETER ELLIOTT HAYES - ORBIT ONE ZERO - 5. THE FROZEN WORLD (320kbs-m4a/66mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 27th July 2025

"If I had known, that night, the terrible risk Elizabeth had taken!" But Clifford knew...

Dr Petrie .... Felix Felton
Tom Lambert .... David Spenser
Clifford Brown .... Graydon Gould
Elizabeth Ryder .... Elaine MacNamara
Professor Campbell McLaren .... Ian Sadler
Peter Garrick .... Harold Reese
Lord Hetherton .... Charles West

PETER ELLIOTT HAYES - ORBIT ONE ZERO - 6. THE UNSEEN (320kbs-m4a/66mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 3rd August 2025

Grave warnings emanate from deep space. Do the seemingly indestructible cylinders have a weakness?

Dr Petrie .... Felix Felton
Tom Lambert .... David Spenser
Clifford Brown .... Graydon Gould
Elizabeth Ryder .... Elaine MacNamara
Professor Campbell McLaren .... Ian Sadler
Peter Garrick .... Harold Reese
Sir Edward Bancroft .... William Fox
Lord Hatherton .... Charles West
Police Superintendent .... Eric Lugg